bug for in-line images and changes to OmniWeb

[Greg Titus]

>was looking at a network page that specified an in-line image as
><img src="/images/optimage/q">  , i.e. without a .gif extension.
>omniweb downloaded the image but did not render to screen.

Could you send me a URL for this page? I'd like to work on this, but our server gets the  
content type from the extension, so it's hard to set up an example myself.

>> Forms support is limping along 

>try it on http://xxx.lanl.gov/xxxform.html and let's hope it responds
>properly to the <base href=".."> directives, crucial in this context.

Just tried it. Doesn't work right quite yet.

>> and socks works
> what is socks? some pc trick?

Socks is a system in use at a lot of sites that use firewalls. It redirects TCP (and UDP?)  
connections from inside to the firewall machine, which connects to the outside world.  
Basically we've added support for those people behind firewalls to reach the rest of the  
universe.

>> There is a major change to the UI that I think a lot of people will  

>> hate at first, too.
>is this a reversion to the baroque rendering of <hr> ,
>or something more ominous?

Anchors have changed. You get the anchor text in blue, as before, but not underlined,  
and a diamond link button follows every anchor. You single click on the link buttons to  
follow the link, instead of double clicking on the anchor text. Since some people have  
complained about having to double-click anchors, I don't really think there'll be anyone  
who will really hate it. Like any change, it does take a little getting used to. Personally, I  
think it's much better.

Also, Wil didn't mention my favorite feature... you can drag out of inline images and get  
TIFF data or a file in the original image format, and you can drag out link buttons and get  
the URL of the destination.

	--Greg

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Greg Titus
Omni Development Inc.
toon at omnigroup.com